Four Freedoms Park Conservancy on Thursday announced it had commissioned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for a monumental ...

While today's Roosevelt Island provides some tranquility amid the bustling city, it has a dark history. Blackwell's Island, ...

Art X Freedom opens with Camouflage, a major site-specific installation by Ai Weiwei at Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt ...

Looking down over the East River from the Roosevelt Island tramway, I watch the New York City skyline shrink in the distance, ...

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Tucked between Manhattan and Queens, there’s a small island in the middle of New York City that most visitors don’t even realise exists. At just 800 feet wide and two miles long, Roosevelt ...

A lovelorn wild turkey named Astoria has flown the coop from Roosevelt Island and landed in Manhattan — probably in search of ...

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The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park.